Word: goosenecking
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...most elaborately decorated dorm, students on the top floor of the 38-year-old building pasted gaily colored tissue paper and Christmas posters on the walls and hung crepe-paper streamers from the ceilings. One coed scrawled MERRY CHRISTMAS with spray snow on the windows; another adjusted a gooseneck desk lamp to shine on a cardboard nativity scene set up on three metal garbage cans in the corridor...
...their bags to head for home. The Dominican priests who run the college made plans to attend the dead students' funerals and visit the families of those who were injured. Fire officials sifted the debris for clues to the cause of the blaze. The most likely suspect: the gooseneck lamp that had illuminated the cardboard...
...against the horizon. The first horde of an eventual 47,000 workers poured in. Ellenton began to pull itself up by the roots. A town called New Ellenton was started from scratch twelve miles away. Most of Ellenton's Negroes moved there, loading their old shacks on giant gooseneck trailer trucks. But the village's white residents scattered-"the D.P.s of World War III," they call themselves. New Ellenton was too much of a boom town for their taste; its population reached 4,000 within a few months. Some of its business enterprises: Atomic Motor Sales, Oak Ridge...
...self-instructions read "get ec hymarx" and "borrow George's notes." Vag looked around for his gooseneck lamp to turn it on and make sure he read correctly, but he couldn't find it. He looked around the dimly lit room and realized that he was back at school. Vag droopped the calendar on the floor, lay back with his eyes shut and began to make an adjustment...
...shot, the stock gag with his fellow pros is: "This won't hurt a bit... Ouch!" He has a loose swing, hits a long straight ball, steadies down under pressure like a real pro, works well on the greens with his unorthodox putter (a gooseneck with the blade extending forward from the shaft instead of backward...